Creating a Cottage Garden From Seed
by
Queen Patina
$20
8 Weeks
Easy
How does one create an affordable, moderately sized "cottage" garden when individuals plants can cost upwards of $5 per plant? Using self-seeding annuals. With proper site preparation, a bit of faith, and some patience, you can grow lovely poppies, Sweet William, Columbine, and other cottage garden favorites from seed!
Feverfew
Grow the cottage garden favorite "Feverfew" from seed. The plant can grow to nearly 2'-3' and offers the gardener a geranium-like fragrance. Once sown, feverfew reseeds prolifically, and as such provides a lovely backdrop for more structural types of flowers such as hollyhocks or roses.
Johnny Jump-up
Grow theses little lovelies from seed one year, and they continue to reappear, but always in a different place.
Love-in-a-Mist
Another self-seeding annual that reappears year after year. While the flowers are short-lived, its seed pod continues to provide visual interest.
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Such pretty flowers!
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I just started out with wild flower seed box from 99 cent store and it took off from their one box did it cover 100 yards.Ive transplanted and collected seeds and its took off from their.now im wanting a true English garden.lol.real simple care these beauties are.and attracts insects,and birds and butterflies we need our pollenators!
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